Quotes about Lament
Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
— Psalm 102:5
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
— Malachi 3:14
Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
— Zephaniah 1:11
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
— Joel 1:13
A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
— Psalm 102:1
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
— Psalm 22:2
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
— Jeremiah 9:1
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
— Isaiah 15:5
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
— Amos 6:6
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
— Psalm 78:64
It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
— Psalm 115:17
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
— Isaiah 3:26